Caribbean Airlines Limited
Platinum Sponsor
Caribbean Airlines is an authentic Caribbean airline which provides a genuine Caribbean experience on all its services. The airline’s professional teams offer the warmth of the islands both on and off the aircraft. Caribbean Airlines operates more than 600 weekly flights to destinations in the Caribbean, North and South America. The airline’s fleet is comprised of Boeing 737-800 and ATR72-600 aircraft. Jointly owned by the people of Trinidad & Tobago and Jamaica, headquartered in Trinidad and Tobago, and with an operational base in Jamaica, Caribbean Airlines employs more than 1600 people. The airline is a member of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) and is recognized as an IATA Operational Safety Audit qualified airline. It is a certified FAA repair station as per regulation 145.
Estate Management & Business Development Company Limited (EMBD)
Platinum Sponsor
The EMBD is a limited liability company under the Government of Trinidad and Tobago. It was formed in August 2002. Its line Ministry is the Ministry of Agriculture, Land and Fisheries with the line Minister, Senator the Honourable Clarence Rambharat. The company is governed by a Chairman and Board of Directors. As the Government moves to make land development and land management more efficient and productive, the mandate of the EMBD has been gradually expanding to cater to this objective.
QES & Associates Limited
Platinum Sponsor
QES & Associates Limited has 25 years of experience and was registered in Trinidad and Tobago in 1997 (trading under Construction QES & Associates an individual registration in 1992). QES was born out of the need for and by clients of Quality Professional Advice to guide them through the maze of Pre and Post Contract processes required on any construction project.
Raymond & Pierre Limited
Platinum Sponsor
This professional practice came into existence in 1972 when Mr. Eugene M. Raymond MOM, FRICS retired as the Commissioner of Valuations in Trinidad & Tobago and formed Eugene M. Raymond & Company.
In 1977 Mr. Ralph A. Pierre MOM, FRICS, IRRV retired as the second Commissioner of Valuations of Trinidad and the Partnership of Raymond & Pierre was formed.
The partnership was incorporated in January 2000 and is now practising as Raymond & Pierre Limited.
Today, Raymond & Pierre Limited is the oldest and largest professional practice of Chartered Valuation Surveyors, Real Estate Agents and Property Consultants in Trinidad and Tobago.
The University of the West Indies
Platinum Sponsor
Originally started as an independent offshoot of the University of London, The University of the West Indies currently serves 17 English-speaking regional territories, offering undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in numerous fields of study: the arts, sciences, business, law, the humanities.
Although St. Augustine is the main campus in Trinidad and Tobago, there is also a satellite campus in nearby Mount Hope that houses the Faculty of Medical Sciences. The university was founded in 1948 in Mona, Jamaica, as The University College of the West Indies, based on a recommendation by the Asquith Commission, which had been established five years prior to review the state of higher education in the then-British colonies. Fourteen years after the Mona campus opened, in 1962, the college received independent university status, in the same year that Jamaica itself received independence from Great Britain.
The Trinidad campus of the regional university, which began in 1960, was borne out of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture; Barbados’ Cave Hill campus came on stream three years after. In 2008, the Open Campus was opened – the culmination of previous iterations of UWI extra-mural and distance-learning institutions. In 2019, the Five Islands campus in Antigua and Barbuda was added. The four locations have key faculties that are common to all the territories – Humanities and Education, for instance, and Social Sciences, all mainstream disciplines. St. Augustine, however, is the only campus that boasts a Faculty of Food and Agriculture, an area of expertise that has long been interwoven into the history of the Caribbean islands.
Tobago House of Assembly
Silver Sponsor
Today the THA comprises two main arms, the Legislative Arm and the Executive Arm, and 9 divisions – eight with particular remits plus the Office of the Chief Secretary, which oversees the others. This Assembly was created by Act 37 of 1980 for “making better provision for the administration of Tobago and for matters therein.”
The Legislative arm (Assembly Legislature) is where all members of the Assembly meet in plenary and/or in select committees to make policy decisions for the operations of the Assembly. These functions are supported by the Assembly Legislature Secretariat and headed by the Presiding Officer. The Clerk of the Assembly is responsible for the efficient discharge of functions of the business of the Assembly.
The Executive arm of the Assembly is headed by the Chief Secretary in his capacity as leader of the Executive Council. The Council has individual and collective responsibility for carrying out the tasks of the Assembly through its divisions. Each division is led by a secretary, with an administrator serving as the accounting officer responsible for producing the desired results of the division. The Chief Administrator is the most senior public officer in the administration and is attached to the Office of the Chief Secretary.